HLnovel Chapter 167 Need to eat a root of old ginseng to slow down
Chapter 167 Need to eat a root of old ginseng to slow down
Shi Mingzhen remained indifferent.
Full of lies!
If you cheat someone to death, you won’t have to pay for it, right?
He saw that Shi Yao was full of energy, more energetic than anyone else in the mansion. It was ok for her to break into the second gate, but she even dared to break into the main gate of the Duke's Mansion!
Who gave her the courage?
When this is the fence wall of my hometown in Jinling!
Shi Yao cried, "... Third brother, she has tarnished my reputation! I can't live! I have to eat thousand-year-old ginseng to keep myself alive.
Otherwise, I would be suffocated and die of anger, or I would be so depressed at night that I would hang myself to death. Then my reputation would be completely ruined, and I would be a bachelor for the rest of my life!
I can't die, I have to live, I have to eat thousand-year-old ginseng! Third brother, look, what should I do?"
What to do? Shi Mingzhen wanted to kill her, and held her forehead and said, "Second sister, stop making trouble! There is no such thing as a thousand-year-old ginseng. Such a rare thing can only be found in the palace."
"Five hundred years is fine too. I want four of them." Shi Yao bargained.
"Not even five hundred years old..."
"Oh, Third Brother is forcing me to die!" Shi Yao banged her head against the vermilion lacquered door.
Shi Mingzhen was so frightened that his soul flew out of his body. He knew she was just pretending, but he still had to hold her back and asked helplessly, "Second sister, what exactly are you trying to do? There is really no thousand-year-old ginseng, and five-hundred-year-old ones are hard to find either. Maybe you can find two or three hundred-year-old ones."
Shi Yao's eyes were red, and she said with tears in her eyes: "Forget it, give me some silver to compensate me, and I will slowly look for the old ginseng by myself. Don't worry, Third Brother, I will live strong and will not cause trouble to the mansion."
Shi Mingzhen: “…”
He was so angry that he kicked Wan Zheng's butt.
It’s all because of this unlucky guy that he married such an unlucky wife!
He asked woodenly, "How much?"
Shi Yao cried with joy and said, "I knew that Third Brother has a deep brotherly love for his sister and would not watch his sister die. The thousand-year-old ginseng is worth at least tens of thousands of taels. I don't want more. Give me 80% off, 8,000 taels, and the disease will be cured."
Eight thousand taels! Why don't you go and rob it? They are even more thieves than mountain bandits! Shi Mingzhen worked hard and covered up the grain resale, but he didn't dare to say that he could earn this much money. The fox mask almost couldn't hold back:
"That's impossible. How could I give you eight thousand taels? Silver doesn't come from the wind."
It was indeed not blown by the strong wind, so she still had to shed a few tears.
Shi Yao was about to ram the red lacquered door again: "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated! I can only die..."
Shi Mingzhen grabbed her again. Seeing that the door had attracted a crowd of passersby, he had no choice but to say, "I'll rob Wan Zheng's house and give you all the silver I find. Is that okay?"
Shi Yao couldn't get out anyway, so he had the final say on how much silver to confiscate.
Shi Yao cried and said aggrievedly: "Anyway, no one in this family takes me seriously, and my third brother can't even bear to give me a root of old ginseng.
But as the daughter of the Shi family, what else can I do except think about my family? I can only live in humiliation. Whatever my third brother says, I'll do it.
Aunt Liuhua, sister Muxiang, and Banxia, the three of you follow your third brother to search the house. Remember, you must scrape the ground three feet deep!
I will sell the odds and ends at the pawnshop and give them to the servants. I will collect the big ones and use them to buy a few hundred-year-old ginsengs to eat. At least I can hang on to my life for now, at least until my eighth brother finds me a wife.”
Shi Mingzhen's signature smile cracked again.
You're desperately trying to get the money, and when you're about to get it, you accept it reluctantly. What's wrong with that?
Rejuvenating ginseng?
There are only five three hundred year old ginsengs in the whole mansion.
The last time he heard that the 300-year-old ginseng was given by his eldest aunt to his eldest sister-in-law Fu Nanjun, who then gave it to Shi Yao, who then gave it to his eighth brother Shi Minghui, who then threw it away.
"Okay, I'll give you everything I found."
Shi Mingzhen just wanted to get rid of Shi Yao, the troublesome guy, as soon as possible. How much money could Wan Zheng, who worked under the old man's nose, get?
At most three to five hundred taels of silver.
Shi Yao pouted and mumbled a few perfunctory complaints about no one caring about her. Shi Mingzhen almost fainted when she heard this. She then said, "Banxia, Rendong, you two hold down Miss Wan."
Madam Wan fainted from the pain while Shi Yao and Shi Mingzhen were talking.
Shi Yao was afraid that she was pretending to be dead and would suddenly attack and hurt herself.
Wan Zheng couldn't help but beg, "Second Miss, this woman has been punished with fifteen strokes of the cane. Although she is strong, she has lost most of her life. Please spare her life and give her children a mother. I will teach her to mend her ways in the future."
Shi Yao wiped her tears and snorted coldly: "When Madam Wan slandered my innocence, she never thought of saving my life."
Wan Zheng didn't dare to say anything more.
What his wife did could be understood but not spoken of. If he didn't speak of it, he would be executing the old man's order. If he spoke of it, he would be slandering the reputation of the second young lady and the eighth master.
Girls suffer more in this kind of situation.
In fact, before Shi Yao revealed the truth, everyone thought that Wan Zheng's wife was deliberately making things difficult for her and didn't think of anything else at all.
Honeysuckle and Pinellia held Wan Zheng's wife on the left and right.
Shi Yao said, "Sister Muxiang, please search me."
Everyone was stunned.
It turned out that Shi Yao asked people to hold down Wan Zheng's wife not to beat her to vent her anger, but to search her body.
Shi Mingzhen's eyebrows jumped. What did Shi Yao discover?
Shi Yao didn't find anything, but the search of the yard today was a sudden thing. If Wan Zheng's wife had accepted a bribe, she would probably have carried it with her.
She observed Shi Mingzhen carefully.
Shi Mingzhen showed no sign of nervousness, he just gently brushed his left sleeve with his right hand.
Shi Yao smiled slightly.
To bribe someone to do bad things, at present, only Shi Mingzhen in the mansion can afford the money.
It didn't matter if she guessed wrong. Shi Yao held this grudge equally against all the masters of the Shi family.
It was either Shi Mingzhen or Lady Zheng, the wife of the Duke.
Sure enough, within a moment, Mu Xiang found a silver note and presented it to Shi Yao: "Second Miss, I found a silver note for two hundred taels."
Shi Yao looked up in surprise: "Third brother, our family is really generous to the servants. Wan Niangzi is a servant, but she has two hundred taels of silver notes on her body! OK, two hundred taels is enough for me to buy a ginseng to eat slowly."
Shi Mingzhen: “…”
Wan Zheng's wife vaguely felt that the money was leaving her, and she struggled to wake up and opened her eyes with great effort. Shi Mingzhen immediately smiled and said:
"Second sister, a girl shouldn't show her face at the main gate. Now that the matter is settled, I will take care of the rest for you. You should go back first, don't let the old master and the old lady know, or they will be angry and punish you. Come, escort the second girl to the second gate."
After saying that, he waved his hand, and several wives and old women came forward, stretched out their hands and said, "Second Miss, please come in."
Shi Yao looked at Shi Mingzhen with tears in her eyes and smiled. Well, she would take this vengeance on her third brother first.
"Then Third Brother, I'll go back first."
After saying this, she held the hands of Aunt Liu Hua and Xing Mi, and walked towards the second gate, weak as a willow in the wind.
Shi Mingzhen: “…”
This second sister is really disgusting!
From now on, you'd better let your wife stay away from her as far as possible, and don't let her lead you astray.